As he flew home from Singapore, Trump was already shifting his attention back to this season's larger story arc. "I said to myself, 'Wouldn't it be better if they were here?'" No details of what those steps would be were given.

The details of how and when the North would denuclearize appear yet to be determined, as are the nature of the unspecified "protections" Trump is pledging to Kim and his government.

North Korean cameras panned crowds packing the street with people snapping photographs of Kim as his motorcade passed by.

He says Trump and Kim Jong Un had a "blunt conversation" about changes needed for North Korea to rejoin the world community.

During the one-on-one, Mr Trump defended his previous approach in handling Kim, which saw the U.S. president ridicule the North Korean leader for having a smaller "nuclear button" than him.

But on his way to Singapore, "I saw what took place at this [Justin Trudeau] news conference, and I said, "That's not really what happened". Before taking office people were assuming that we were going to War with North Korea. Note that one of the things Trump held out to North Korea as a benefit of making a deal with the United States was the possibility of trade-which he suddenly regards as a problem and "unfair" when we trade with our allies.

Kim understood getting rid of his nuclear arsenal needed to be done quickly and there would only be relief from stringent United Nations sanctions after its "complete denuclearisation", Pompeo said.

"There are always concerns about President Trump and he's very erratic", Wit said. USA officials said it was unclear what types of training involving US and South Korean troops might cross into Trump's now forbidden zone of "war games". "Putin was right", a spokesman said. The narrator references some of Trump's main arguments to Kim, namely that eliminating his nuclear stockpile would allow his country to benefit economically and re-enter the world community. "My meeting with Chairman Kim was honest, direct and productive".

Trump said not only was a pullout not discussed, the USA "is not drawing down at all".

THE FACTS:Trump is wrong to suggest North Korea no longer poses a nuclear threat. But I think so far [the negotiations with North Korea are] meeting the minimal standards for success.

The two Koreas were also to hold the first high-level military talks in 10 years on Thursday, according to the South Korean news agency Yonhap.

"Otto did not die in vain".

In reality, the likelihood of war has diminished only slightly - let's say from very unlikely to very, very unlikely.

Trump said he would "absolutely" invite Kim to visit the White House and is open to visiting Pyongyang, as well.

The US president said he had, and did not retract his description of Mr Kim as "talented".

Trump took a similar approach in his Tuesday interview after Fox host Bret Baier pressed the him about how Kim had "done some really bad things". "And so if he's going to go at somebody, he's going to go at them in the way that he would respect somebody else going at him".

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